Monday, October 24, 2011

Homemade Hello Kitty cookies made by my colleague and her little daughter. Isn't this precious? My heart is so warm that I managed (don't ask how!) not to eat them until I got home and took these pictures! FYI, they taste even better than they look!

This is the gift from Nena's giveaway, and I wanted to share both its picture and my gratitude with everyone. Nena, you are one in a million!Ovo je poklon sa Neninog giveaway-a, čiju sliku želim da podelim sa svima kao i moju zahvalnost. Neno, ti si jedna jedina!

Monday, October 17, 2011

After the first wave of fall giveaways in September, now comes the flood! Dive in!
(and this is in order of me discovering them, no bias at all)Posle prvog talasa jesenjih giveaway-a u septembru, sada imamo i pravu poplavu! Ulećite!

And last but not least is giveaway at IHeart Organizing for 10.000 (!) Facebook fans:

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Isn't this fantastic? Well, I have one more fantastic piece of information to give: it's been for a while that I've started planning to have my own first giveaway. I'm waiting for the magical number 50 in my followers count, and than the magic will happen! Keep reading!

Monday, October 10, 2011

I am well aware that I have not written much here in September, but I think that I had good reasons. First there was the chocolate swap, than we had several workshops and, finally, I've had a first real customer and a first real order (I have to brag a little)!Vrlo sam svesna činjenice da nism mnogo pisala u poslednje vreme, ali barem sam za to imala dobre razloge. Prvo, pravila sam radove za čokoladni swap, imali smo nekoliko naših malih dugarskih radionica, i, vrlo bitno, imala sam svog prvog pravog kupca i prvu pravu porudžbinu (moram malo da se hvalim)!

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My colleague wanted me to make several polymer clay earrings for his girlfriend's birthday. I had some ideas (I love working with the extruder lately), and he also had some ideas of his own. So we combined it all and ended up with plenty of pieces to choose from. Final choice is on the photograph, and let me just say that the gift was a success! :)

So far I was only working for pure pleasure and gave all my works as gifts. It was different now: there was someone to be pleased, there were time boundaries, colour and shape suggestions, more responsibility to be flawless. It was a great experience that I've thoroughly enjoyed, and as a bonus, for the first time I'll have a lot of finished pieces that I might consider selling. I must say that I had great use of Marina's (from craftzeeFactory blog)advice on price forming - that you so much on sharing your wisdom!Do sada sam uvek radila čisto zadovoljstva radi i poklanjala svoje radove. Ovaj put je bilo drugačije: trebalo je ispuniti nečija očekivanja, imala sam vremensko ograničenje, bile su tu preferencije za boje i oblike koje ću koristiti, takođe i veća odgovornost da radovi budu što kvalitetnije urađeni. Bilo je to sjajno iskustvo u kojem sam zaista uživala, a kao bonus iz cele te priče, imam još puno komada gotovog nakita koji će možda jednog dana biti za prodaju. Moram tako]e da dodam da su mi od velike koristi bili Marinini (blog craftzeeFactory) saveti o formiranju cene - puno ti hvala što deliš svoju mudrost!
If anyone wonders what I'll do with the money I've earned, it will all go on new supplies so that I can work and have fun even more! Do you remember what you did with your first earning from this, or what would you do if you still haven't started selling?Ako se iko pita šta ću uraditi sa novcem koji sam zaradila, planiram da ga potrošim na materijal pa da mogu i dalje da radim i da uživam! Da li se sećate na čega ste vi potrošili svoju prvu zaradu od ovoga, ili, na čega biste je potrošili ako još niste počeli da prodajete?